Gift link below. Maybe the best thing she's ever written.

"Isn’t it laughably cruel that the Alabama Supreme Court says that this is already a child? That this cluster of hopeful cells that you have been dreaming could become a baby is actually a person already? You would be laughing, if you could stop crying.

"What an appallingly cruel thing to say to people already going through so much to have a child, people who were prepared to endure the grueling in vitro fertilization process of treatments and injections and embryo development before their pregnancy could even begin. What a ridiculous thing to say to anyone with a modicum of sense.

"Don’t believe the evidence of your senses. Embryos are children. Flour is cake. These acorns are an old-growth forest. This half-baked insulting nonsense of a ruling is justice."

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"Another thing they never tell you is how deranging it is to try to argue against these absurdities. Someone points at a glass dish with a hopeful blob in it, and says this is a human child, and you say, “No, actually, that is not a child. That is something significant whose loss would be devastating because it could be a child nine months from now if everything goes well, but …” Ah, but in the eyes of God, this is the same! They say these things with straight faces. They say these things as though they were not destroying the very thing they claim to want to protect.

"Because of this cruel, inane insistence on something that is palpably untrue, there will be fewer children. Three Alabama clinics that perform IVF have already halted it out of fear of legal repercussions. Would-be parents who had been planning the process in the hopes of meeting their children someday have been forced to abandon that hope. In the name of protecting unborn children! Not children, as you and I understand them — the kind of children who shriek with delight when you blow raspberries on their bellies, who need their diapers changed and have a favorite bear. The better kind, in the eyes of these judges. The kind that will never get to be born."